This stems from an earlier topic regarding The Hatteras Issue. Thanks to Kim for sending this along.
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Yep. It is true. Some techno-dweebs took over for a short time and slapped a billboard up over the top of the WordPress theme I was using. Punks. For those that have commented here, don’t worry about any security issues. My web host assures me that it wasn’t that kind of attack, just more a nuisance. Please bear with me while I run through the archived database back-ups and get the original theme/PHP stuff back online. Besides! It’s Summer here in the Northern Hemisphere. Get outside with your cameras! Snoop around in the rocks! Cool off while recording stream velocities and estimating stream discharge! Test the compressibility of beach sands under the weight of a Martini glass! Have fun! I had never heard of Conquina Rocks until I took an impromptu visit to the Outer Banks of North Carolina last week. These rocks are very important to the community of Kure Beach. Kure is pronounced “Keer-Eee”. I’m going to delve into Coquina Rocks a little more as well as some other coastal processes sometime this week… hopefully. There’s a lot going on but with any luck, this rather cool photograph will suffice for now. 
Digital photography is like numerical computer modeling: It’s all one giant sensitivity analysis. Say you’re out exploring and taking some geologic photographs and one of the pipes in your car’s exhaust system breaks. Suddenly, everyone is looking at your loud, obnoxious car at every single traffic light from the north side of Raleigh all the way through downtown, and on to the south side of the city. This is exactly what happened to me last Saturday. So first thing Monday I had to get out the phone book and start looking up muffler places. Something stuck in my mind though. This place down on South Saunders Street in Raleigh called Majestic [so the sign read]. So I called them up, spoke with Randy, and headed on over with my obnoxious embarrassment of a car. A little bit of background on me here. I like to buy goods and services locally. When I say locally, I mean local to the Greater Raleigh Area. It’s just my thing. So when I got to Majestic and spoke with Randy things got good. Randy and his team discovered that my catalytic converter did not need replacement. I tend to agree with his assessment that most other places would try to dog pile on my wallet and convince me that a new catalytic converter was required in addition to the pipe. Car repairs are expensive enough but Randy hooked me up and saved me a lot of time and money. I’d definitely recommend you checking out Majestic Car Care Center if you live in Raleigh. You need a good, solid automobile to get around town while working and exploring. However, there’s no compelling reason you break the bank in the process of vehicular maintenance. Majestic is located about 1/8th of a mile south of the I-40 bridge on US-401 South. They are on the right, and here’s what the sign looks like out front from the road. You can’t miss it:  Majestic Car Care Center Majestic Care Car Center Oh and if you need window tinting for automobile, residential, commercial, or marine projects, give Randy’s Cary shop a call at Tint World. There were a couple of small bug fixes that I just took care of on the page. I say small. However, stuff like no spaces after commas stand out to my eyes like blaze orange against lime green. Any way, it should be sorted now. I found some weird Raleigh geology yesterday afternoon that I’ll have to do a little looking into. Before that though, I wanted to give a big thanks to the Photography Committee of the 15th Annual Komen NC Triangle Race for the Cure. The event was held on the beautiful campus of Meredith College and in the surrounding neighborhood along Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, North Carolina on Saturday June 11, 2011. The early stormy-looking clouds from the previous evening gave way to the typical sunny, warm North Carolina day. I was invited to participate as a volunteer photographer. Pretty cool considering I didn’t think I was necessarily at this point in my amateur skill level. It was definitely a new and interesting type of shooting… similar to a parade but a lot faster in pace. I learned a lot. What was I doing here? was all I kept asking myself once I realized that this was a big style deal, and it probably ranked up there with a professional-tier event. My duties were two-fold. I was to gather images on a free-roaming basis of each of the three 5 kilometer [5K] races, of which there were 25,000 people running or walking in total! And to cover the Main Stage for the Survivor Recognition Ceremony. Wow. Regulars to this page know that I like the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure foundation. I think it’s a solid charity. I didn’t expect some of the emotional and positive energies that were happening right in front of my camera lens once I found a sweet spot on the inside lane at the Start-Finish Line during the Women’s and Open 5K Events. Half of the time, I don’t think I was even looking through the camera view finder; rather, just aiming over the top of the flash hot shoe watching the humanity occurring 30 feet in front of me. It was pretty moving, so I’ll just shut up now and let the photographs do the talking:
I can’t say enough about how cool Komen is. Some of you may remember my friend Keely is doing the 60 miles in 3 days Komen event this Autumn. Please go check out her blog page to stay in touch with her story. As of today she’s getting there a little at a time. Keely has really been cranking on the workouts. She has more photographs too as part of her training log. If you have any spare change between the couch cushions, maybe you could toss it to her for a small donation to a huge cause. Thanks all. I hope you enjoyed! The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA] released a 2011 Hurricane Prediction on May 19, 2011 for the Atlantic Basin. This prediction calls for:
I just came across this fun little online tool. You can practice all your manual photography from the comforts of your own computer chair now! Pretty soon we won’t ever need to leave home… source: www.photojojo.com Have a good time playing your new SLR camera video game. Too bad a vast majority of the action is going on outside This is a pretty cool site a friend just shared with me. Thought I’d pass it along quickly for the astros, photogs, and other sky watchers. It’s called Photopic Sky Survey—a very high-resolution interactive photographic visualization tool for the Milky Way Galaxy produced by Nick Risinger.  Photopic Sky Survey - Nick Risinger 2011 If you click on the page name plate in the lower right, you can read more about the technical details. Enjoy. And to all the mothers out there, Happy Mother’s Day! |
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